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So whats to stop from someone unplugging your car and plugging it into their electric car? or kids going up to your car unplugging it and sticking gum in your connectors. This reminds me of all those pay phones being tampered with for no reason.

So whats to stop from someone unplugging your car and plugging it into their electric car? or kids going up to your car unplugging it and sticking gum in your connectors. This reminds me of all those pay phones being tampered with for no reason.

Most charging handles have holes for a luggage key so you can lock the charger to the car. Also, on the chargers you need to pay for, disconnecting it stops the meter, so the next person to plug in needs to authorize it to start charging again.

Finally, if you lock a Volt with the charger on, disconnecting the charger will set off the alarm.

It's like the prototype came out of the design studio and someone said, "Christ on a crutch, this is what our design team came up with?? A Camry???" And the front and rear fascia team said, "Not for long!"

Oh this tired old incorrect claim again! Neato! You're wrong, as even if you ran EV's wholly on coal (which you dont in most of the nation), it's around a 60% reduction in emissions.

Originally Posted by Old post I made last time this came up

So, the basic math at hand here, assuming nothing but coal power: 250 million cars are on the road in the US, and if they were replaced with EV's with a LEAF sized pack (26 kWh), and they go 2 miles per kWh, and drive 15,000 miles a year, they'll pull 600 billion kWh off the grid. We've seen that each kW of coal sourced electrons is 2 pounts of CO2, so that's 1.2 trillion pounds of CO2 emitted to run the nation of electric cars.

To run all of our cars, the US used a lot of gas. For instance, in 2011 3.19 Billion barrels of gas were used to run our 250 million cars. Gasoline produces 19.4 pounds of CO2 per gallon burned. 3.19 billion barrels (42 gallons per barrel) times 19.4 pounds of CO2 per gallon is 2.6 trillion pounds of CO2 emitted to run our cars on gas.

So, worst case, with everything being on coal, it's 1.2 trillion pounds for the EV's, and 2.6 trillion pounds for ICE cars. To be factored in is the fact that we're less than half coal, power plants generally aren't pumping out emissions in dense city centers like cars are, many EV owners run PV on their roofs and are grid independent.

Organizers launched Adopt a Charger, a new nonprofit with a mission to install chargers across the country that are free for all to use. The first such charger was unveiled at Crissy Field, part of Golden Gate National Park.

Originally Posted by mitch hedberg

I drive a rental car, I don't know what's going on with it, right? So a lot of times I'll drive for like 10 miles with the emergency brake on. That doesn't say a lot for me, but it really doesn't say a lot for the emergency brake.

Originally Posted by Robstr

How hard is that to understand without getting your panties in a bunch?
Surely some of you guys managed to make it out of middle school.

Built in boost gauge in the dash. One of my friends at the time saw that turbo was on theoretical empty and asked if we needed to stop and get more turbo. I gave it gas and he was like wait, its full now. Had to quickly explain the process.

Originally Posted by Calcvictim

so basically the OP has no clue about anything and just posts out of his ass?

The car sucked in every way imaginable, that it entered the annals as one of the worst cars ever built. It was shoddily built in a plant where labour relations were atrocious. It rusted like hell, and the aluminium engine had the durability of a soggy potato chip. Few cars could have been so thoroughly bad Despite the "explosion" controversy, the Ford Pinto compared favourably to the Vega, and that's saying something.

The Walgreens pharmacy chain will offer rapid-charging EV stations at 18 Houston-area stores next year, through a partnership with power utility NRG Energy.

NRG’s eVgo Network(pronounced ee-vee-go), one of the first commercial electric-vehicle-charging networks to launch in the U.S., will initially consist of over 100 charging stations and cost NRG about $10 million in infrastructure investment.

The eVgo Network will be rolled out in early 2011 throughout Houston and Harris County, Texas, and include two types of facilities, as well as two types of EV charging stations.

The eVgo network will be an integration of both Level 2 chargers, which generally take four hours to recharge an EV to full capacity, and DC rapid chargers, which can charge an EV in about 30 minutes.

Originally Posted by Patton

If everybody's thinking the same thing, then nobody's thinking.

Originally Posted by Einstein

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

It's not hard to tell when a driver is texting. If I can do it while driving a manual, eating a cheeseburger AND loading a shotgun... the average driver, who is admittedly much smarter, and more coordinated than me, should be capable of seeing it too.